Policing & Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Policing & Society is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Coercive control and risk in intimate partner violence: are Canadian police prepared to assess?22
Crime and deviance in the colleges- elite student excess and sexual abuse21
‘We need to use the entire toolbox’ storytelling in the unarmed Norwegian police19
Involving citizens in urgent missing person cases. An application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour within District Criminal Investigations Teams18
Law enforcement and public health: partners for community safety and wellbeing18
Public support for expanding DNA databases: police empowerment and the normative and instrumental models of police legitimacy in South Korea15
Cultural scripts of risk consciousness: police practices in high-risk offender management programs14
Police misconduct hearings as legitimacy dialogues14
‘Everything seems to be pushed onto the businesses’: stakeholder perceptions of the policing of business crime in Staffordshire, United Kingdom14
Queering police legitimacy theories: (dis)trust, context, and visibility13
Correction13
What do we know about police leadership? A review of the current status of police leadership research and practice, with suggestions for future research directions13
Police deployment in armed conflict: a typology and multi-case application13
LGBTQ+ officers in US federal service: an examination of workplace inclusion and experiencing sex-based discrimination13
Comparative Policing12
Protest policing and public perceptions of police. Evidence from a natural experiment in Germany12
Unpacking the Blue Box: structure, control and education in policing11
How Children's Advocacy Centers law enforcement officers cope with work-related stress: impacts and approaches to self-care10
Misconduct by private security officers and trust in the police: evidence from a natural experiment in Sweden9
From detection to sentencing: a homicide case flow analysis of the Dutch criminal justice system9
Sex workers’ confidence in the police in one Canadian city under the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act9
‘Don’t talk to them!’ on the promise and the pitfalls of liaison policing at COP268
The potential of automated classification to categorise police force tweeting behaviours: leading the way to large scale analysis8
Understanding the reconstruction of police professionalism in the UK8
Austerity, path dependency and the (re)configuration of policing7
Social capital transformation and social control: what can we learn from the changing style in communication between religious communities and the police during COVID-197
Procedural justice as a reward to the compliant: an ethnography of police–citizen interaction in police custody7
Nexus between police attitudes and responses to domestic and family violence in Australia: does training matter?7
Sexual and violent police perpetrators: the institutional response to reporting victims7
Why democratic police reform mostly fails and sometimes succeeds: police reform and low state capacity, authoritarianism and neo-patrimonial politics (in the former Soviet Union)7
Occupational identity and police officers’ social relations in Ibadan City, Nigeria7
Polycentric governance, epistocracy and the limits of policing knowledge in preparing for the climate crisis7
Aiding or enabling? Officer perspectives on harm reduction and support services in an open-air drug market7
Investigating honour-based abuse and other crimes in South Asian communities: the benefits, limitations and impacts of ‘ethnic matching’ and ethnic ‘difference’ of police officers7
Chief police officers’ stories of legitimacy6
It's all about time: the influence of behaviour and timelines on suspect disclosure during investigative interviews6
Safety, privacy, or both: evaluating citizens’ perspectives around artificial intelligence use by police forces6
Neighbourhood policing6
Guardian versus warrior cops: predicting officers’ support for procedural justice and coercive policing6
Searching for a needle in a haystack? An exploratory study into the policing of ‘needle spiking’ in the UK6
Problem-oriented policing in England and Wales: barriers and facilitators6
Women-led police stations: reimagining the policing of gender violence in the twenty-first century6
Knowledge, practice and professional identity: unthreading the challenges of contemporary police tutoring arrangements in England and Wales5
‘They stand there looking really bored and pissed off': analysing efficient police resourcing at football matches in England and Wales5
‘The ones in red:’ people who use drugs’ experiences of the Janus-faced nature of police volunteerism5
Institutional distrust trap: an analysis of the effect of public distrust in the Nigeria Police Force5
Rocking the Boat5
A.C.A … All Coppers Are … an analysis of police legitimacy in Spain5
Doing gender and professional identity: inclusion and exclusion of female civilians in criminal investigations4
The inevitable fallibility of policing4
Policing is not for me: repelling factors implicated in vocational choice elimination4
Police legitimacy and culture revisited through the lens of self-legitimacy4
Explaining confidence in the police within transitional Hong Kong: the influence of postmaterial values4
Public perception of algorithmic policing in a non-democratic context: evidence from Kazakhstan4
The irrationalities of rationality in police data processes4
Exposure to citizen incivility, perceived public disrespect, and police stress: evidence from front-line officers in South Korea4
Attitudes and views regarding law enforcement activity at large outdoor raves in Israel: a cross-sectional survey4
The everyday reality of private security work in Sweden: negotiations at the front line of public order maintenance4
The birth of an organisational field: the institutionalisation of civilian crisis response services in the de-tasking era4
Cultural and symbolic capital in the market for security: police-private security relations in Mexico and the United Kingdom4
The ‘haves and have-nots’ of social support during police recruitment: why the playing field is anything but level4
‘They call us for everything’: cynicism, rural policing and youth justice4
Police sergeants and disaster management during Australia’s Black Summer bushfire crisis4
Prevalence and patterns of domestic abuse victimisation in an English police workforce4
Participant accounts of police violence during black lives matter protests in Chicago4
Detectives and technological frames: integrating technology and social media into everyday work3
Urban disorder in democratic transitions: Ukraine’s municipal policing debates in comparative perspective3
The analysis of excessive disciplinary action and the effect of disciplinary rationalization policy: an empirical analysis of the results of disciplinary appeals reviews for police officers3
Community-based policing of natural disasters in Vietnam: analysing the ‘four-on-the-spot’ model3
Procedural justice, neighbourhood context, and domestic violence reporting intention among subgroups of immigrants3
Examining police perceptions of challenges in policing adolescents: a comparative analysis across rank, role, and tenure3
Revisiting the demeanour effect: a video-observational analysis of encounters between law enforcement officers and citizens in Amsterdam3
Repeat or chronic?: examining police data accuracy across the ‘history’ classifications of missing person cases3
Institutions, political attitudes or personal values? A multilevel investigation into the origins of police legitimacy in Europe3
Globalizing local policing: an ethnography of change and concern among Danish detectives3
Visible policing: uniforms and the (re)construction of police occupational identity3
The ruling from the field stands? Shedding light on officers’ interpretations of body-worn cameras footage3
Health harms, climate harms and the regenerative potential of policing3
Impression management following investigation and prosecution scandal in Norwegian police: a review of press releases3
Forgotten, outdated, and absent: PSNI officer’s training, experiences, and confidence with Autism3
Intersectional injustices: police responses to migrant, Black and minoritised victim-survivors of rape and other sexual offences in England and Wales3
Rural decline and policing of cannabis legalisation in Washington3
Policing child sexual exploitation and abuse cases: a qualitative PRIORITY study of the challenges faced by law enforcement officers in Germany, Portugal, and Sweden3
Enhancing missing persons search strategies through technological touchpoints3
Apathy, resistance, and disengagement: A social media analysis exploring anti-police sentiment through motivational postures3
A crisis of legitimacy?: The importance of procedural justice in frontline private security provision3
Police department websites and digital language accessibility: a platform for achieving effective communication between limited English proficient communities and the police2
Normalisation of crisis communication in post-crisis times: examining the Facebook page of Hong Kong police force during and after radical protests2
‘Strands in a cable’: effective investigator decision-making using forensic identification evidence in volume crime investigations2
(Post-)crisis policing, public health and private security: the COVID-19 pandemic and the private security sector2
Investigative private policing beyond the police: an exploratory study2
Dare to share: information and intelligence sharing within the UK’s anti-money laundering regime2
Policing Nigerian elections: violence, institutional weaknesses and remedial trajectories2
Drawing a line: boundary work in victim support police work2
Police officers as filmmakers: the cinematography of body worn cameras2
Algorithmic policing: an exploratory study of the algorithmically mediated construction of individual risk in a UK police force2
Factors associated with encounter-specific police procedural justice perceptions among Dutch detainees2
Turning it on and off: a behavioural and situational comparison of non-fatal violence perpetrated by on- versus off-duty police officers2
‘A genuine one usually sticks out a mile’: policing coercive control in England and Wales2
Public relations and public service: police departments on Facebook2
Policing legitimacy: social media, scandal and sexual citizenship2
Post-election riots and the dilemmas of democratic policing: recent experience in the United States and Brazil2
Better safe than sorry? Police officers’ identification of and responses to vulnerable crime victims2
Collaboration, risk and ‘just’ outcomes: challenges and opportunities in policing HBA2
Body-worn camera videos and public perceptions of police: an experiment on positive video exposure and community-police relations2
Correction2
Getting back to the state: policing the Covid-19 pandemic2
United Kingdom-European Union policing and law enforcement cooperation in the post-Brexit era2
Predict and surveil: data, discretion, and the future of policing2
Algorithmic policing accountability: eight sociotechnical challenges2
Policing futures: transforming the evidence-based policing paradigm through interdisciplinarity and epistemological anarchism2
From evasion to retaliation: exploring the motivations behind assaults on police2
r/ProtectandServe: an exploration of the virtual canteen culture regarding police misconduct2
‘Giving the right service to different people’: revisiting police legitimacy in the Covid-19 era2
Correction2
Policing in a relational state: the case of sorcery accusation-related violence in Papua New Guinea2
Public support for empowering police during the COVID-19 crisis: evidence from London2
Legitimacy and cooperation with the police: examining empirical relationship using data from Africa2
‘No one wants to end up on YouTube’: sousveillance and ‘cop-baiting’ in Canadian policing2
Values? Camera? Action! An ethnography of an AI camera system used by the Netherlands Police2
Restoring trust in Mexico’s police: do officer gender and work experience matter?2
Move-on powers and practices of social exclusion: an examination of governance2
The coproduction work of healthcare professionals in police custody: destabilising the care-custody paradox1
Therapeutic alignments: examining police and public health/harm reduction partnerships1
Policemen, COVID-19, and police culture: navigating the pandemic with colleagues, the public, and family1
Politicians and police in the face of democratic change in Chile and Colombia1
Advancing our understanding of immigrants’ trust in police: the role of ethnicity, immigrant generational status and measurement1
First they came for the Young Communists: police facilitation and control at COP26, Glasgow1
Spy plane: inside Baltimore’s surveillance experiment1
The vigilant citizen. Everyday policing and insecurity in Miami The vigilant citizen. Everyday policing and insecurity in Miami , by T. Jeursen, New York, NYU Press, 2021
The official history of criminal justice in England and Wales: Volume V: policing post-war Britain: plus ça change1
Police victims of domestic abuse: barriers to reporting victimisation1
Policing suicide: investigative officers’ views on criminalisation and enforcement of anti-suicide laws1
The perverse impact of performance measures on policing: lessons from the rise and fall of out of court disposals1
Race and support for police use of force: findings from the UK1
Coercive rehabilitation and therapeutic control: how the police navigate the penal-welfare nexus in Chinese drug governance1
Unmasking police accountability: responses to Australian First Nations peoples’ deaths in police custody1
Police, non-state actors, and political legitimacy in Central America1
Mediated public perceptions of police encampment clearances in Canada and France: a cross-national study1
‘Setting benchmarks and breaking chains’: public opinions of female police officers1
The politics of police governance: Scottish police reform, localism and epistocracy1
From the street corner to call centre: changes in the characteristics of mental health-related calls for service received by police1
Does prior misconduct predict drug use by police?1
Exploring the relationship between shared identity and interoperability: a mixed methods analysis of discussion-based multi-agency emergency response exercises1
Policing technology-facilitated abuse1
Reforming police education in Iceland: a comparative analysis of students’ competence valuations before and after the transition to university education1
Why the police should be trained by Black people1
Can harm be predicted? On the development and validation of a statistical model for predicting harm in missing person incidents1
Foreword, Comparative Policing Review1
The ‘civilizing effect’ and ‘deterrence spectrum’ revisited: results of a national study of body-worn cameras on fatal police force1
Nocturnal policing: a study of public, private and voluntary policing in the night-time economy1
Youth’s contacts with private security guards: compulsive and assistive encounters1
Announcement1
Policing rape: the way forward1
Adaptive policing for a climate crisis1
Attempts to teach ethics to police leaders and managers at the Police College: a lesson from history1
I was having an anxiety attack and they pepper sprayed me' : police apprehension in mental health contexts in Australia1
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